The comment, “You see women that have beards and hair on their chest. Fear them, they are the real ogbanje o,” uses a harmful stereotype to label women with certain physical features as “ogbanje,” a term rooted in Nigerian folklore to describe people with supernatural or malicious tendencies. By linking natural body traits, like chest hair or beards, to something sinister, the commenter promotes an unfounded and negative belief that casts these women as untrustworthy or dangerous.
This kind of labeling reinforces damaging misconceptions and ostracizes women who don’t fit traditional standards of appearance. Rather than focusing on personal values or actions, such comments spread prejudices that alienate people based on arbitrary physical characteristics. Stereotyping in this way dismisses individuality and unfairly burdens women with misconceptions rooted in cultural superstitions rather than reality.
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